At the end of the previous book, The Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta were faced with coming home to district 12 and not knowing what to expect. Now that they are back things have changed. Because Katniss fooled the Capital into letting two people survive the games, it made them look foolish. They do not like to be messed with. The president, President Snow, came into district 12 to let Katniss know how things are going to be run now. Apparently the skit that Katniss put on in the arena has caused other districts to react and retaliate against the Capital, which is strictly forbidden! Snow came to tell Katniss that she is not fooling anyone with her fake love intrest in Peeta and she better start acting better or people she love will die.
Katniss and Peeta start their trip again. This time it is for the Victory Tour. It is when the victor (or victors in this case) will go to every district and have a celebration in their honor. When they arrived to District 11, Rue's district, someone in the audiance made a noice supporting her and everyone cheered symbolizing the unity of district 11 and 12. This would cause great uproar in the Capital because as the districts unite, the more stronger they get and weaker the Capital becomes. Lets just say that man got dragged off and shot in the head.
The two love birds eventually make it to the Capital , once there they have a dinner in their honor. During this party Peeta decides to purpose to her so that they could convice the President that they were truely in love (Peeta loves Katniss, but Katniss does not love Peeta in return). Snow congragulates Peeta and Katniss and while giving Katniss a firm hand shake he nods to her in approval showing that he believes her now.
They return to the city thinking everything is going good and that the Capital will not interfer with them anymore until the next hunger games begin. They were wrong! Katniss ended up making a plan to run away with Peeta's family and Gale's family to protect all of them just incase. During her planning she hears of an uproar in district 8. She believes that everyone is in danger and it is the best thing to run away into the forest forever. When Gale and Katniss meet in the woods, Katniss tells gale of this plan and he is on board until she tells him about the uproar in the districts. Gale believes if other districts are doing it, they should too and stealthly declines Katniss' offer to run away.
Once back into the town, Katniss runs to her house all of a sudden to stop and return back to the center. She heard noise not heard before. When she enters the square of the district she sees Gale tied onto a cross and the turkey he killed in the forest right above him. When Gale went to sell the turkey to the mayor, the head police were there and going into the forest was a death crime. Thankfully he told a lie stating that it was roaming around in the district. Yet still a crime, it was less punishable. The head police takes a whip and right before it slashes Gales skin, Katniss steps in and takes the hit for him right across the face. Haymitch also steps in and talks about how he hit the victor. Next, Peeta comes and stands up saying that he hit his fiance. They police guards exit and Haymitch, Peeta, and Katniss take Gale down from the cross and take him to Katniss' mother (she is the nurse/doctor in the town). She fix him up, but he still has substantial amount of pain running through his body.
Catching fire is a book that I would not think would be all that interesting considering that it had to top the first book, which in my case would be pretty hard. But the book so far is doing a nice job of keeping you interested. Also I think Katniss is in a big love triangle right now!! Peeta loves her and so does Gale, but Gale is her best friend and she does not know if she has feelings for Peeta or not, or maybe she has feelings for Gales. She has no clue what she wants! I do no know why but I am leaning towards Gale just because they have been friends the longest and know each other better. Peeta just came into the picture because of the games. But also they have to keep this act up for the rest of their lives and they cannot do that with Gale in the picture. I don't know what she is going to do! Hopefully I will find out in the end of this book.
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